Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmsdale, both have conflicts with society and their inner selves. While they can both be the protagonists, Hester Prynne is the protagonist of The Scarlet Letter, not Arthur Dimmsdale. In the first scaffold scene, Hester Prynne is ... both have similar conflicts in the story. They have both sinned in a town with intolerance for sinners. However, Hester is the protagonist as she is able to find inner strength to help her overcome situations like when Pearl was going to be taken from her and the interviews that tried to find out who Pearl's father is. Dimmsdale did .....

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... cast off from her community and the Puritans are faced with an adulteress and an innocent child, born from sin. Hawthorne's use of tone, conflict and point of view help to describe the impact of Hester's sin on herself, and her community. Hester Prynne was a married woman who ... Letter was a novel filled with antagonism. Main conflicts include man versus man, man versus self, and man versus society. The initial man versus man conflict was between Arthur Chillingworth and Reverend Dimmesdale. It had turned out that Chillingworth was Hester's former husband. He was a prominent figure in t...

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... literature is, in its simplest form, a struggle between good and evil." This quote illustrates a conflict between what is wrong and what is right. Making a wrong decision sometimes makes an individual an outcast. Both Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter, ... Boston, Puritans went by the Bible, especially the Eighth Commandment "Thou shall not commit adultery." As of this, Hester wore the Letter A, which symbolized adultery. The sin didn't destroy Hester's inner being, but otherwise build the strength, courage and survival that she neede...

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... seeped into him, he no longer used his common sense. He had one goal: to destroy Dimmesdale. He became enslaved by his ambition. Chillingworth had several deformities that reflected his inner abnormalities (I.e. his shoulder). He was unable to maintain deep relationships with people after his long disappearance. Chillingworth proceeded in taking the role of a doctor, a profession in which many secrets are ... (that he was indeed the father of Pearl) and therefore Chillingworth has no target for his mania. He cries out "Thou hast escaped me!" which signaled his defeat in this conflict. H...

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... not be disciplined for something that his or her mother has done. Hester and Pearl should not be condemned or tormented by the community for Hester's sins, this is an inner conflict and must be solved by the individual, not the society. God is the only one who has the authority to do so. It is said that God loves all His ... ...

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